Listening to Trauma
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Features interviews with a diverse group of leaders in the theorization of, and response to, traumatic experience in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Cathy Caruth Knihy
Cathy Caruth je profesorkou humanitných vied, ktorej práca sa hlboko ponára do tém traumy, naratívu a histórie. Jej literárne analýzy skúmajú, ako sú naše skúsenosti formované príbehmi, ktoré si rozprávame, a ako tieto príbehy ovplyvňujú naše vnímanie pravdy a fikcie. Caruthovej prístup často spája literárnu kritiku s psychoanalýzou a filozofiou, aby odhalila zložité vzťahy medzi jazykom, pamäťou a ľudským prežívaním. Jej dielo je kľúčové pre pochopenie toho, ako literatúra odráža a formuje naše najhlbšie traumy a skúsenosti.
The afterword provides a critical perspective on current debates within the field, offering insights that contribute significantly to the discourse. It addresses key issues and challenges, positioning itself as a vital commentary that encourages further exploration and dialogue among scholars and practitioners.
These stories of trauma cannot be limited to the catastrophes they name, and the theory of catastrophic history may ultimately be written in a language that already lingers in a time that comes to us from the other side of the disaster.
The book explores the tension between traditional English empiricism, particularly Locke's view of self-understanding through observation, and the critiques posed by Romantic poets and German philosophers. Cathy Caruth reinterprets Locke's work as a narrative where "experience" holds a complex and uncanny significance. She examines how Wordsworth, Kant, and Freud engage with this narrative, not merely as opponents of empiricism but as grappling with the intricate relationship between language and experience in their own writings.